The Italian Mafias of Ndola are continuing with their rampage in the Zambezi Portland Cement Factory. As per the latest news, the new management group (the Ventriglia family) has terminated 47 employees from the factory by declaring that they were redundant. Internal sources are suggesting that the fate of another 53 employees is likely to face the same situation in the days to come.

The second largest cement manufacturing unit in Africa, Zambezi Portland Cement Factory has faced a severe downfall in revenue ever since Dr. Rajan Mahtani left the management group. However, the Italian Mafias have tried to level best to convince people that ZPC is performing well. The latest revenue reports of the factory show a major downfall in sales along with poor administration. The result of this impact was that 47 employees of the factory were handed over a letter of termination effective from July 1 2015.

A considerable factor while employee termination is the consent of Labor Union group. In the present case, there was no consent obtained from the Labor Union of Zambezi Portland Cement Factory, nor was any alternate opinion asked for. The dismissal took place in pure Italian Mafia style where the employees were called and termination took place. The President of United Mineworkers Union of Zambia (UMUZ), too, found the action wrong.

It appears that the Ventriglia family has lost all its patience and morals in its quest to gain the ownership of the Zambezi Portland Cement Factory. Recently, the lawyer of the Italian Mafias took an illegal way to alter records of the factory with PACRA at the Kitwe Office. A junior officer was forced to make changes in the register in the absence of any order from the High Court. With time, the only development which can be seen in ZPC is corruption and employee abuse.